Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Viscott, David

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Picabia, Francis

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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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.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter