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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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 you fall, don't get up empty handed

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

George, William Lloyd

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.