Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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.

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

Porsche, Dr.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Confucius

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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People don't fail, they give up

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Ziglar, Zig

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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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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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

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Heller, Joseph

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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 only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Edward Albee

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve