Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edward Albee

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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

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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

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Melville, Herman

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, Turkish

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

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

Viscott, David

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

Wooden, John

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William