Motivational Quotes

Failure

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

- George, William Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Confucius

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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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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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Heller, Joseph

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, African

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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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

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bill Lyon

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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.