Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Melville, Herman

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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 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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Viscott, David

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

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis