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

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Turkish

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Seneca

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bloch, Arthur

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Sophocles

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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 is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Keats, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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