Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Viscott, David

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Edward Albee

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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