Motivational Quotes

Failure

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Failure

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Clarke, J. Richard

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Confucius

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

Eliot, George

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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 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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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George