Motivational Quotes

Failure

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

- Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Viscott, David

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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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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

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Baxter, Anne

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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.

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

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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.

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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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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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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