Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Confucius

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

George, William Lloyd

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Proverb, German

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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