Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bill Lyon

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Keats, John

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

Confucius

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

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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Proverb, African

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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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People don't fail, they give up