Motivational Quotes

Failure

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Keats, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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.

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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 can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

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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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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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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African