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

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

James, William

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

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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.

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

Edward Albee

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sophocles

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Grayson, David

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Wooden, John

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Chase, Ilka

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom