Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Failure

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bloch, Arthur

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Melville, Herman

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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

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

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sophocles

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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