Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Confucius

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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

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

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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.

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

Seneca

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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

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Picabia, Francis

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Wooden, John

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

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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