Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

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

Quentin Crisp

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Seneca

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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

Bill Lyon

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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