Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

- Whewell, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Edward Albee

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Baxter, Anne

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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.

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Keats, John

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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 doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Hopkins, Tom