Motivational Quotes

Failure

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

- Merton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Keats, John

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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