Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

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

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Proverb

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

Grayson, David

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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