Quotes about failure

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

Neuharth, Al on failure   

"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. on failure
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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. on failure
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"Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial."

Perot, H. Ross on failure   

"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. on failure   

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

Phillips, Wendell on failure
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"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Picabia, Francis on failure   

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

Pitino, Rick on failure
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

Plutarch on failure
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"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself."

Porsche, Dr. on failure   

"When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick."

Proverb on failure
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"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."

Proverb, African on failure
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"Everyone pushes a falling fence."

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

Proverb, Chinese on failure
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"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet."

Proverb, German on failure
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"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."

Proverb, Turkish on failure
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"If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win"

Reuther, Walter on failure
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"Failure is not fatal; victory is not success."

Richardson, Tony on failure   

"Some defeats are only installments to victory."

Riis, Jacob on failure   

"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."

Robbins, Anthony on failure   

"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 on failure
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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 on failure   

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

Robbins, Anthony on failure
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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. on failure   

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."

Rockne, Knute on failure   

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

Rohn, Jim on failure   

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

Rohn, Jim on failure
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"You always pass failure on the way to success."

Rooney, Mickey on failure
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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 on failure
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"If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on failure
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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 on failure
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

Root, Elihu on failure
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

Ruth, Babe on failure   

"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless."

Schuller, Robert H. on failure   

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

Schuller, Robert H. on failure
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"Turn your scars into stars"

Schuller, Robert H. on failure   

"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."

Seneca on failure
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"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on failure