Motivational Quotes

Failure

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

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

Eliot, George

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Viscott, David

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edward Albee

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Melville, Herman