Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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.

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

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Melville, Herman

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, African

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Heller, Joseph

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

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

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Picabia, Francis

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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