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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Loelia, Duchess

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Bill Lyon

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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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 not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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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

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Sophocles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Proverb, German

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers