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

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, German

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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