Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Bill Lyon

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Jones, Lloyd

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Phillips, Wendell

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Grayson, David

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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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