Motivational Quotes

Failure

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

- David Nicholls

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Salak, John Charles

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

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

Seneca

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Lynch, Charles

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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.

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

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

Proverb, German

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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 all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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