Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

- Whewell, William

Best Quotes about Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Edward Albee

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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