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

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

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

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Korda, Michael

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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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

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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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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Wooden, John

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

Lynch, Charles

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers