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

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schuller, Robert H.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, 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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Quentin Crisp

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Korda, Michael

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.