Motivational Quotes

Failure

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bill Lyon

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Edward Albee

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Rohn, Jim

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Sophocles

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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 are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Carl Jung

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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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.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur