Motivational Quotes

Failure

Thought is born of failure.

- Whyte, Lancelot Law

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Seneca

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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.

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

Edward Albee

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, African

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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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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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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

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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

31.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Salak, John Charles

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

South, Bishop Robert