Motivational Quotes

Failure

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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 is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Proverb, African

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Chase, Ilka

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Picabia, Francis

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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

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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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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 all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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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