Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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People don't fail, they give up

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Baxter, Anne

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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.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Korda, Michael

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.