Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Viscott, David

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Edward Albee

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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 -- 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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Baxter, Anne

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Grayson, David

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Bartkowski, Steve