Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Goizueta, Roberto

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

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

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edward Albee

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

Baxter, Anne

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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.

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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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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

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, African

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.