Motivational Quotes

Failure

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Chase, Ilka

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Rohn, Jim

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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