Motivational Quotes

Failure

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

- Quentin Crisp

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

James, William

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Chase, Ilka

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Edward Albee

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

Proverb

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lynch, Charles

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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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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.

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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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

George, William Lloyd

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Viscott, David

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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