Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Seneca

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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Proverb, German

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Bill Lyon

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De