Motivational Quotes

Failure

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

- Chase, Ilka

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Neuharth, Al

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

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

Salak, John Charles

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Seneca

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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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 not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Melville, Herman

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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