Motivational Quotes

Failure

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

- Cole, Edwin Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

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

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

Confucius

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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.

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bill Lyon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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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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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Edward Albee

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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