Motivational Quotes

Failure

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)

Best Quotes about Failure

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

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

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

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Bill Lyon

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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

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Melville, Herman

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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