Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

People don't fail, they give up

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Melville, Herman

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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