Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

10.

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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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

12.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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

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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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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're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

27.

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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

32.

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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Seneca

46.

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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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Porsche, Dr.