Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Clarke, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Failure

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

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Wooden, John

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Seneca

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Viscott, David

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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