Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

- Root, Elihu

Best Quotes about Failure

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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

2.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

6.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

7.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

12.

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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Baxter, Anne

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

17.

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

18.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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.

23.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Aoki, Rocky

25.

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.

26.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

27.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

29.

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

Sophocles

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

32.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

34.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

35.

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

Porsche, Dr.

36.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

37.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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

40.

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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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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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

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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

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

South, Bishop Robert

46.

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

47.

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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