Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Picabia, Francis

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Eliot, George

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Ziglar, Zig

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Grayson, David

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Heller, Joseph

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.