Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Korda, Michael

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Grayson, David

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Porsche, Dr.