Motivational Quotes

Failure

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Dorothea Brande

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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People don't fail, they give up

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb

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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

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Bill Lyon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William