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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, African

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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People don't fail, they give up

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Ziglar, Zig

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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.