Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Melville, Herman

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

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

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

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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