Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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 such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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

Chase, Ilka

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.