Motivational Quotes

Failure

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Waitley, Denis

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chase, Ilka

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

Proverb, African

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

21.

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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bill Lyon

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ziglar, Zig