Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Swinnerton, Frank

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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.

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Korda, Michael

Kettering, Charles F.

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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, German

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

Quentin Crisp

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Melville, Herman

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Grayson, David

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom