Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Salak, John Charles

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.