Motivational Quotes

Failure

Thought is born of failure.

- Whyte, Lancelot Law

Best Quotes about Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Keats, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb

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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 not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.