Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Failure

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Eliot, George

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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.

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Edward Albee

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Viscott, David

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Proverb, African

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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