Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Chase, Ilka

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Keats, John

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Jones, Lloyd

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Seneca