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

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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 thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Wooden, John

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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