Motivational Quotes

Failure

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Failure

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Viscott, David

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Grayson, David

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Keats, John

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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