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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Kaufman, Herbert

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

James, William

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

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Melville, Herman

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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.

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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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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People don't fail, they give up

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Baxter, Anne