Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about 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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Seneca

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.

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

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, African

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

James, William

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Grayson, David

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon