Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Eliot, George

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Edward Albee

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Proverb

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

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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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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.