Motivational Quotes

Failure

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

- Goizueta, Roberto

Best Quotes about Failure

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

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

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

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Grayson, David

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Edward Albee

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

Seneca

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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 is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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