Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Confucius

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

10.

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

15.

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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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

20.

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

Chase, Ilka

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

30.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

32.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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 simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

George, William Lloyd

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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

Dahlberg, Edward