Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Rohn, Jim

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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

Korda, Michael

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

35.

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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