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

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wooden, John

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Proverb, German

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom