Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Grayson, David

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Miller, Henry

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

10.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

11.

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

12.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

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

Quentin Crisp

15.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bill Lyon

19.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

20.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

21.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

24.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

27.

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

Baxter, Anne

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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.

33.

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

Hopkins, Tom

34.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

35.

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

36.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Picabia, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

44.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

48.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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