Motivational Quotes

Failure

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Proverb, German

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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 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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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Sophocles

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Proverb

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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People don't fail, they give up

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Edward Albee

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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

Keats, John

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.