Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Kaufman, Herbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Keats, John

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Wooden, John

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

Chase, Ilka

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, 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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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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 man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Edward Albee

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

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Picabia, Francis