Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about 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

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Melville, Herman