Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb

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

Grayson, David

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Bill Lyon

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

Picabia, Francis

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

11.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Seneca

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

22.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Reuther, Walter

28.

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

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

42.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

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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.