Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Kaufman, Herbert

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sophocles

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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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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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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