Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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 you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Grayson, David

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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

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Chase, Ilka

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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 we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.