Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Chase, Ilka

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter