Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Best Quotes about Failure

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Grayson, David

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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

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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 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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sophocles

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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

Bill Lyon

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.