Motivational Quotes

Failure

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Carl Jung

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

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

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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 doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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.

Burford, Frank

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

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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

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

Proverb

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick