Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Picabia, Francis

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

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Proverb, German

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Proverb

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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