Motivational Quotes

Failure

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

- Jones, Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Confucius

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rohn, Jim

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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