Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Carl Jung

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

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

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Edward Albee

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Confucius

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Korda, Michael

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.