Motivational Quotes

Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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 who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Bloch, Arthur

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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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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

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, German

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Heller, Joseph

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Givens, Charles J.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.