Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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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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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 is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Melville, Herman

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Baxter, Anne

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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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 are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross