Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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)

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

James, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Grayson, David

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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 a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Salak, John Charles

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Viscott, David

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, German

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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

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