Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

- Burford, Frank

Best Quotes about Failure

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Givens, Charles J.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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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 greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Heller, Joseph

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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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