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

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

J.K. Rowling

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Carver, George Washington

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Wooden, John

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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