Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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 -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 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

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Keats, John

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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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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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