Motivational Quotes

Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, African

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Lynch, Charles

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hillyer, Robert 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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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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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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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake