Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Edward Albee

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

Quentin Crisp

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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