Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Melville, Herman

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

George, William Lloyd

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Confucius

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Wooden, John

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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