Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

- Richardson, Tony

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, German

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.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Wooden, John

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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.

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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 boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, William Lloyd

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.