Motivational Quotes

Failure

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Wooden, John

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Baxter, Anne

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

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

Sophocles

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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