Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

- Richardson, Tony

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Chase, Ilka

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Eliot, George

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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