Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Rohn, Jim

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 only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Pitino, Rick

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Eliot, George

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

South, Bishop Robert

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Viscott, David

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.