Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Porsche, Dr.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Tracy, Brian

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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