Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Edward Albee

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Proverb, African

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bloch, Arthur

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Korda, Michael