Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not an option.

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Failure

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Chase, Ilka

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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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

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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Viscott, David

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.