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

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

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

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Seneca

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Keats, John

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Picabia, Francis

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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