Motivational Quotes

Failure

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

- Aldrich, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Failure is the path of least persistence

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob