Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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)

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart