Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aoki, Rocky

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.

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.

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Eliot, George

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Viscott, David

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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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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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

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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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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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