Motivational Quotes

Failure

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Melville, Herman

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 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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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

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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

Confucius

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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