Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Reuther, Walter

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Proverb, African

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

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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Edward Albee

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Melville, Herman

43.

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Loelia, Duchess