Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Tracy, Brian

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Confucius

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

17.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

18.

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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

20.

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

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

26.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Grayson, David

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Eliot, George

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

Sophocles

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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