Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

Failure is the path of least persistence

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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.

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

Pitino, Rick

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lynch, Charles

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Neuharth, Al

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine