Motivational Quotes

Failure

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

- Aldrich, Thomas B.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, African

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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People don't fail, they give up

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Reuther, Walter

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.