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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Melville, Herman

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Eliot, George

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Wooden, John

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

Brown, Les

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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.