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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edward Albee

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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

Sophocles

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

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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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 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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Miller, Henry

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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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 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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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