Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not an option.

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

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

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Grayson, David

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

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.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, Turkish

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eliot, George

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick