Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, German

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Tracy, Brian

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Wooden, John

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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