Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 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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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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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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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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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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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