Motivational Quotes

Failure

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Failure

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Korda, Michael

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Keats, John

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

Proverb, African

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

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

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Proverb

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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

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Confucius

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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