Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Waitley, Denis

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Seneca

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb

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

Edward Albee

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Melville, Herman

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.