Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Confucius

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

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

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, African

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

Seneca

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Korda, Michael

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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

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

Proverb

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

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, German

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Grayson, David

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

Sophocles

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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 typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Aoki, Rocky

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