Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Sophocles

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

Grayson, David

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb, African

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Viscott, David

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Neuharth, Al

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Bill Lyon