Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Failure

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Jones, Lloyd

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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

Seneca

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Neuharth, Al

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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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

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Bill Lyon

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