Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

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.

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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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 win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Ziglar, Zig

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Edward Albee

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Quentin Crisp

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl