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

Viscott, David

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Keats, John

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Confucius

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

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

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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People don't fail, they give up