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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Viscott, David

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

People don't fail, they give up

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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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Chase, Ilka

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Edward Albee

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

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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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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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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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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis