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

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Confucius

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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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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Keats, John

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Bill Lyon

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

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

George, William Lloyd

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Seneca

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.