Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dahlberg, Edward

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Confucius

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

Wooden, John

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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)

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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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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.