Motivational Quotes

Failure

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

- Swinnerton, Frank

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Bill Lyon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Neuharth, Al

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Edward Albee

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Givens, Charles J.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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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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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

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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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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Proverb