Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

Success is the proper utilization of 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

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

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

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Pitino, Rick

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sophocles

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William