Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Failure

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Lynch, Charles

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Viscott, David

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

Carl Jung

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

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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.