Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Wooden, John

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, African

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

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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 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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Quentin Crisp

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Neuharth, Al

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Sophocles

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

Edward Albee

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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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