Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Failure

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Sophocles

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

Keats, John

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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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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 are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis