Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

- Salak, John Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hill, Napoleon

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Viscott, David

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 can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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 is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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, 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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Chase, Ilka

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Keats, John

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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.