Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Viscott, David

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Korda, Michael

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Heller, Joseph

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Aoki, Rocky