Motivational Quotes

Failure

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Quentin Crisp

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Seneca

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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.

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

Sophocles

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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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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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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