Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Wooden, John

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Seneca

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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.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Pitino, Rick

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Proverb

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Sophocles

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Chase, Ilka