Motivational Quotes

Failure

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Rohn, Jim

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Carver, George Washington

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

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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Seneca

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Keats, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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.