Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Carver, George Washington

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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)

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bloch, Arthur

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Proverb, African

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Melville, Herman

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Grayson, David

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Jones, Lloyd