Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Failure

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Melville, Herman

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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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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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Pitino, Rick

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb

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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

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Confucius

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.