Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

People don't fail, they give up

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Proverb, African

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ziglar, Zig