Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Quentin Crisp

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Edward Albee

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Carver, George Washington

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Bloch, Arthur

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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People don't fail, they give up

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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 not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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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.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart