Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Sophocles

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Eliot, George

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edward Albee

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Wooden, John

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

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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

32.

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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Neuharth, Al

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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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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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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, African

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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