Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Failure

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Loelia, Duchess

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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