Motivational Quotes

Failure

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Seneca

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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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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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

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, African

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

Bill Lyon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.