Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

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.

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

Confucius

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Quentin Crisp

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Chase, Ilka

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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

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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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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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 you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.