Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Salak, John Charles

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Bill Lyon

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

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Wooden, John

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Lynch, Charles

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.