Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Loelia, Duchess

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, Turkish

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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 great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Edward Albee

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Seneca

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Grayson, David

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.