Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Eliot, George

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Seneca

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande