Motivational Quotes

Failure

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

- Miller, Joaquin

Best Quotes about Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Hopkins, Tom

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry 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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Miller, Henry