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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Sophocles

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Korda, Michael

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

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Chase, Ilka

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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