Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Proverb, African

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

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

Korda, Michael

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carver, George Washington

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Grayson, David

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles 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.

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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