Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Quentin Crisp

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Proverb, African

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sophocles

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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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Melville, Herman

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

Korda, Michael

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.