Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Givens, Charles J.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lynch, Charles

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Grayson, David

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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 is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Melville, Herman

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Edward Albee

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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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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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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