Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Past failures are guideposts to success.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Neuharth, Al

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Pitino, Rick

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Melville, Herman