Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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.

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Keats, John

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.

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

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Melville, Herman

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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