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

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

Picabia, Francis

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

People don't fail, they give up

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

George, William Lloyd

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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

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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.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Bill Lyon

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Jones, Lloyd

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Grayson, David

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Melville, Herman

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, African

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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.