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

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Chase, Ilka

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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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 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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Proverb, African

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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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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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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'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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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.