Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Wooden, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Proverb, Turkish

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Baxter, Anne

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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.

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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