Motivational Quotes

Failure

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Failure

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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.

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

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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 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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Grayson, David

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Seneca

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony