Motivational Quotes

Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

- Riis, Jacob

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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)

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

Sophocles

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.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Keats, John

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Proverb, German

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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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 meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Proverb, African

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Miller, Henry