Motivational Quotes

Failure

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

- Stern, Richard Martin

Best Quotes about Failure

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, African

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Confucius

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

Bill Lyon

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

Reuther, Walter

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Viscott, David

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Sophocles

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Chase, Ilka