Motivational Quotes

Failure

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

- Hillyer, Robert S.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Goizueta, Roberto

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Proverb, African

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung