Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Wooden, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Chase, Ilka

People don't fail, they give up

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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rohn, Jim

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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 great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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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 can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.