Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Seneca

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Reuther, Walter

If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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 win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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