Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Seneca

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

Keats, John

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.