Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Seneca

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Proverb

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is 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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win