Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Quentin Crisp

Best Quotes about Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

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

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Edward Albee

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