Motivational Quotes

Failure

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

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

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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

Sophocles

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Heller, Joseph

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Seneca

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

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Viscott, David

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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