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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lynch, Charles

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Seneca

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Heller, Joseph

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Chase, Ilka

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Lutzer, Erwin 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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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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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Proverb, African

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Keats, John

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter