Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

- Salak, John Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lynch, Charles

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Neuharth, Al

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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.

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

George, William Lloyd

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Grayson, David

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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.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Clarke, J. Richard