Motivational Quotes

Failure

Turn your scars into stars

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Korda, Michael

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Viscott, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Grayson, David

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.