Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Bill Lyon

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Proverb, African

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

Grayson, David

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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

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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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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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

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

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal