Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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.

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.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

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

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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Proverb

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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 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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Proverb, German

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.