Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Failure

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Goizueta, Roberto

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Lynch, Charles

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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 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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Quentin Crisp

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