Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about 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.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Eliot, George

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Ziglar, Zig

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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