Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Jones, Lloyd

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Proverb

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, German

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Viscott, David

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.