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'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

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

Hopkins, Tom

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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 think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Seneca

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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