Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Jones, Lloyd

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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 often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Picabia, Francis

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Wooden, John

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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