Motivational Quotes

Failure

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Failure

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bartkowski, Steve

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Quentin Crisp

Failure is the path of least persistence

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Picabia, Francis

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Baxter, Anne

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Cole, Edwin Louis