Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Failure

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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Les

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

George, William Lloyd

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Proverb, African

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August