Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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.

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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 just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Seneca

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Melville, Herman

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert 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 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

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

Quentin Crisp

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro