Motivational Quotes

Failure

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Failure

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Viscott, David

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

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baxter, Anne

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.