Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

2.

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

Eliot, George

3.

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

Rohn, Jim

4.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

5.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

7.

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

8.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

9.

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

11.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

13.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Jones, Lloyd

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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

27.

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

28.

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

Melville, Herman

29.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

31.

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

32.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

34.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

40.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

45.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

46.

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

Phillips, Wendell

47.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

48.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

49.

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.

50.

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

Hill, Napoleon