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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Givens, Charles J.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Keats, John

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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