Motivational Quotes

Failure

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

- Quentin Crisp

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Edison, Thomas A.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Korda, Michael

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Keats, John

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.