Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Aoki, Rocky

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Hopkins, Tom

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.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Heller, Joseph

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.

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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.

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

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Melville, Herman

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Edward Albee

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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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis