Motivational Quotes

Failure

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

- Samuel McChord Crothers

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Viscott, David

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

Loelia, Duchess

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Chase, Ilka

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

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

Edward Albee