Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Keats, John

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Eliot, George

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

Korda, Michael

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, German

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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