Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Kaufman, Herbert

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Bill Lyon

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

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

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

Confucius

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Edward Albee

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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