Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Korda, Michael

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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Grayson, David

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

Viscott, David

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Proverb, German

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, William Lloyd

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Quentin Crisp

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Proverb, African

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Proverb

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry