Motivational Quotes

Failure

Thought is born of failure.

- Whyte, Lancelot Law

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wooden, John

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Carl Jung

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

James, William

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Korda, Michael

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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

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

Heller, Joseph

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Bill Lyon