Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Turkish

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to 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 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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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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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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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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Rohn, Jim