Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Seneca

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Proverb, African

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Proverb

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wooden, John

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Edward Albee

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Melville, Herman

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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 path of least persistence

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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