Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Lynch, Charles

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Confucius

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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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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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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Quentin Crisp

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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