Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Seneca

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

South, Bishop Robert

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Past failures are guideposts to success.

People don't fail, they give up

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Confucius

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Proverb, African

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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