Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Seneca

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Picabia, Francis

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.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Brown, Les

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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 the path of least persistence

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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.

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl