Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

Past failures are guideposts to success.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Grayson, David

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Neuharth, Al

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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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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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

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Miller, Henry