Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Reuther, Walter

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Seneca

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

Grayson, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Heller, Joseph

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Viscott, David

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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.