Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Wooden, John

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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)

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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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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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.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham