Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

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

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

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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 am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Miller, Henry

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.