Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Sophocles

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Carl Jung

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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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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.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.