Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

- Whewell, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Proverb, African

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Seneca

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu