Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

People don't fail, they give up

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Givens, Charles J.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pitino, Rick

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Jones, Lloyd

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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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 not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb, German

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Miller, Henry

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa