Motivational Quotes

Failure

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

- Jones, Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Seneca

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

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Proverb, African

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Confucius

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis