Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

South, Bishop Robert

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Proverb

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Grayson, David

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Lynch, Charles

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Viscott, David

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Keats, John

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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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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

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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

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed