Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Sophocles

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Grayson, David

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, African

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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Sugarman, Joseph

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett