Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hillyer, Robert 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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

George, William Lloyd

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, African

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People don't fail, they give up

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Heller, Joseph

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Seneca

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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