Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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

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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Viscott, David

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Wooden, John

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tracy, Brian

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.