Motivational Quotes

Failure

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Failure

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

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

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

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

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

Chase, Ilka

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Grayson, David

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Wooden, John

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is an event, never a person.