Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Proverb, German

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb, Turkish

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.