Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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.

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

Swinnerton, Frank

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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 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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Melville, Herman

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lynch, Charles

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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