Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Swinnerton, Frank

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Neuharth, Al

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Edward Albee

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

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

Tracy, Brian

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Miller, Henry

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Sophocles

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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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