Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Quentin Crisp

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Turkish

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Neuharth, Al

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.