Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Reuther, Walter

Best Quotes about Failure

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Hubbard, Elbert

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sophocles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Miller, Henry

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

32.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.