Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Failure is the path of least persistence

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Chinese

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Givens, Charles J.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.