Motivational Quotes

Failure

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

- Bloch, Arthur

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Reuther, Walter

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Baxter, Anne

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Bill Lyon

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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.