Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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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

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Proverb, German

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Jones, Lloyd

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Heller, Joseph

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