Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Confucius

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Wooden, John

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

George, William Lloyd

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

24.

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

Sophocles

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.