Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Carver, George Washington

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Keats, John

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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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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 moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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

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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 typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Melville, Herman

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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