Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Salak, John Charles

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Ziglar, Zig

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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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

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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 win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Porsche, Dr.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Sophocles

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Bloch, Arthur