Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Keats, John

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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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 is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sophocles

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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.