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

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Grayson, David

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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 am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13