Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Waitley, Denis

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Mckinnon, Dan

Failure is the path of least persistence

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Confucius

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

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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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.

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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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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

28.

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

Sophocles

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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People don't fail, they give up

42.

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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Lynch, Charles

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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.