Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Failure

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Wooden, John

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

Neuharth, Al

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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 only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Korda, Michael

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

Keats, John

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, German

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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

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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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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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