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

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

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Picabia, Francis

14.

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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

26.

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

27.

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

Proverb, African

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

32.

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

Sophocles

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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People don't fail, they give up

40.

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

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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

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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

43.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette