Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Failure

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Heller, Joseph

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Rohn, Jim

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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.