Motivational Quotes

Failure

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Wooden, John

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Keats, John

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Proverb, German

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

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