Motivational Quotes

Failure

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Rohn, Jim

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Edward Albee

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

10.

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.

11.

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

Grayson, David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

George, William Lloyd

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

17.

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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Keats, John

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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

22.

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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Failure is the path of least persistence

24.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

25.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

28.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

44.

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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chase, Ilka

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

48.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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

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

Proverb, African