Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Proverb

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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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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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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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Loelia, Duchess

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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

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

Seneca

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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