Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Bill Lyon

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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

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.