Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Confucius

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

If you've never failed you've never tried.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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 not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Bristol, Claude M.