Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Robbins, Anthony

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Neuharth, Al

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Heller, Joseph

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hoffer, Eric