Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

People don't fail, they give up

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

Hopkins, Tom

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, African

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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 only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rohn, Jim

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis