Motivational Quotes

Failure

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

- John Keats

Best Quotes about Failure

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Grayson, David

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Proverb, German

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Edward Albee

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John Keats

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Korda, Michael

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Sophocles

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry