Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Failure

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Edward Albee