Motivational Quotes

Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Porsche, Dr.

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