Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Korda, Michael

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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 moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Bloch, Arthur

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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.

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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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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth