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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Mckinnon, Dan

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Eliot, George

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

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, African

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.