Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Givens, Charles J.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Salak, John Charles

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Carver, George Washington

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Keats, John

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

George, William Lloyd

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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