Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Seneca

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

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.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

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 no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Grayson, David

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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

Wooden, John

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

Baxter, Anne

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, African

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.