Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

James, William

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John