Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

South, Bishop Robert

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Viscott, David

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, 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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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Failure is the path of least persistence