Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Rohn, Jim

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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People don't fail, they give up

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Reuther, Walter

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