Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Neuharth, Al

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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.

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

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

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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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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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 not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

28.

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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Wooden, John

31.

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.

32.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Picabia, Francis

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David