Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Confucius

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

Phillips, Wendell

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Melville, Herman

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.

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.

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

Grayson, David

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Viscott, David

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

Proverb, African

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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

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

George, William Lloyd

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bill Lyon

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Sophocles

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.