Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

- Brown, William D.

Best Quotes about Failure

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Viscott, David

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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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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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Quentin Crisp

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Seneca

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Korda, Michael

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

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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.