Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Cole, Edwin Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

10.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

11.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Carl Jung

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Wooden, John

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

Korda, Michael

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

30.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

31.

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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

38.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Lynch, Charles

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