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

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

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.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Miller, 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 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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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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.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Picabia, Francis

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Seneca

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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If you've never failed you've never tried.