Motivational Quotes

Failure

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Failure

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, African

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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