Motivational Quotes

Failure

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

- Goizueta, Roberto

Best Quotes about Failure

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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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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

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Wooden, John

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Grayson, David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

Disney, Walt

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

Seneca

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.