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've never failed you've never tried.

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

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

Miller, Henry

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Ziglar, Zig

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Reuther, Walter

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Seneca

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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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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