Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Grayson, David

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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 failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

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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.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Bill Lyon

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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