Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

- Root, Elihu

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Neuharth, Al

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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

Grayson, David

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

10.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

11.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

12.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

Givens, Charles J.

14.

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

Sophocles

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

16.

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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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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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

19.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Lynch, Charles

21.

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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

24.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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

29.

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.

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

34.

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

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

39.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.