Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Chase, Ilka

Best Quotes about Failure

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb, Turkish

People don't fail, they give up

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

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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Quentin Crisp