Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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.

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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Reuther, Walter

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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

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

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

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

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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 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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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