Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Heller, Joseph

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keats, John

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Seneca

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Edward Albee

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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