Motivational Quotes

Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Viscott, David

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, Turkish

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Proverb, African

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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.