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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Pitino, Rick

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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.

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

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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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Picabia, Francis

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Keats, John

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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.

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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