Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

Carl Jung

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin