Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

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

Seneca

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

Bill Lyon

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Grayson, David

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

Edward Albee

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Viscott, David

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aoki, Rocky