Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

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.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Carver, George Washington

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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