Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, Chinese

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Carl Jung

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

Sophocles

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Viscott, David

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Baxter, Anne

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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.

Goizueta, Roberto

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