Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Baxter, Anne

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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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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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