Motivational Quotes

Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Grayson, David

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Keats, John

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb

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

Korda, Michael

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

Miller, Henry

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Rohn, Jim

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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 only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Baxter, Anne

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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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 must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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

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

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell