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

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

Korda, Michael

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

South, Bishop Robert

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

If you've never failed you've never tried.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Keats, John

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Proverb, African

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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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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 fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.