Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Eliot, George

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Picabia, Francis

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aoki, Rocky

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People don't fail, they give up

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

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

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.