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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

22.

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

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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.

30.

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Neuharth, Al

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine