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

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Rohn, Jim

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Lynch, Charles

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu