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

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Edward Albee

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heller, Joseph

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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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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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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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