Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Carl Jung

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Chase, Ilka

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Eliot, George

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 is the path of least persistence

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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People don't fail, they give up