Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig