Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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)

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

George, William Lloyd

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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

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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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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

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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