Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

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.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Wooden, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Edward Albee

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

Eliot, George

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Neuharth, Al

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Turkish

30.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Baxter, Anne

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

38.

People don't fail, they give up

39.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

43.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel