Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Failure

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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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 -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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People don't fail, they give up

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Korda, Michael

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin