Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Reuther, Walter

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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.

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

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Korda, Michael

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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