Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Failure

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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 is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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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 only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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.

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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