Motivational Quotes

Failure

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

- Heller, Joseph

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Viscott, David

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.

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

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Korda, Michael

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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

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

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wooden, John

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

29.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

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

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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