Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Heller, Joseph

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Melville, Herman

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

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Grayson, David

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony