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

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Keats, John

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Sophocles

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

Neuharth, Al

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Eliot, George

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edward Albee

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Viscott, David

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

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

Seneca

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J.K. Rowling

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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

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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

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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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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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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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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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