Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Reuther, Walter

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

South, Bishop Robert

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People don't fail, they give up

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David