Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Failure

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Quentin Crisp

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Baxter, Anne

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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Edward Albee

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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.

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, African

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Wooden, John

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette