Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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

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

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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 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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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