Motivational Quotes

Failure

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Grayson, David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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've never failed you've never tried.

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

South, Bishop Robert

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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 greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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