Motivational Quotes

Failure

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Phillips, Wendell

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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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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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 not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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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