Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Eliot, George

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

Pitino, Rick

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Confucius

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George