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

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Wooden, John

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

Edward Albee

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

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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