Motivational Quotes

Failure

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

- Bill Lyon

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.