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

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Carl Jung

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

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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Edward Albee

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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 boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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

Seneca

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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