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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

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.

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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Gardner, John W.

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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

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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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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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