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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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)

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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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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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

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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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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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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Melville, Herman

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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.

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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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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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People don't fail, they give up

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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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Keats, John

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis