Motivational Quotes

Failure

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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.

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

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.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

10.

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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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

21.

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

Proverb, African

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Hopkins, Tom

27.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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

29.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Sophocles

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

33.

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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Quentin Crisp

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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

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John