Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bloch, Arthur

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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 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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Ziglar, Zig