Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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.

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Keats, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis