Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Keats, John

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Bill Lyon

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Proverb, German