Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

South, Bishop Robert

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Grayson, David

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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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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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.

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Picabia, Francis

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Proverb, African

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert