Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not an option.

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Failure

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 in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Seneca

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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

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

Carver, George Washington

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Quentin Crisp

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.