Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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.

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.

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

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wooden, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Korda, Michael

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Proverb, African

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Hill, Napoleon