Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Failure

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Eliot, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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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.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Robbins, Anthony

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