Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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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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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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Keats, John

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick