Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Quentin Crisp

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Baxter, Anne

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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