Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

- Whewell, William

Best Quotes about Failure

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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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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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

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

Edward Albee

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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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Seneca

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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