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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Keats, John

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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 wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Chase, Ilka

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Sophocles

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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 you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Melville, Herman

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Baxter, Anne

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami