Motivational Quotes

Failure

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

- Clarke, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baxter, Anne

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carl Jung

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Seneca

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.