Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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)

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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Carl Jung

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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

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

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George