Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Eliot, George

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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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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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb, African

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Eliot, George

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett