Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

People don't fail, they give up

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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 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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Sophocles

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Proverb

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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