Motivational Quotes

Failure

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Edward Albee

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

People don't fail, they give up

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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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