Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Failure

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Carl Jung

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Korda, Michael

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

George, William Lloyd

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Seneca

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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.

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.