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

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.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Baxter, Anne

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Edward Albee

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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