Motivational Quotes

Failure

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carl Jung

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.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Rohn, Jim

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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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.