Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Failure

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

James, William

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Proverb

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Reuther, Walter

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Seneca

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.