Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Seneca

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Aoki, Rocky

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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.

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Ziglar, Zig

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Viscott, David

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Baxter, Anne

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Reuther, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Melville, Herman

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

Grayson, David

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Brown, Les

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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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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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.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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