Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Wooden, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

South, Bishop Robert

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Picabia, Francis

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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

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

Keats, John

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake