Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Failure

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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