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

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

South, Bishop Robert

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

J.K. Rowling

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

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Sophocles

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Edward Albee

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Bill Lyon

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Keats, John

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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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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bloch, Arthur