Motivational Quotes

Failure

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Edward Albee

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Rohn, Jim

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Picabia, Francis

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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