Motivational Quotes

Failure

Thought is born of failure.

- Whyte, Lancelot Law

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Melville, Herman

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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 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 fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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.

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lynch, Charles

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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.