Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sophocles

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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 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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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Chase, Ilka

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

Proverb, African

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Keats, John

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

Hill, Napoleon