Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Wooden, John

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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