Motivational Quotes

Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

Best Quotes about Failure

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

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Viscott, David

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Proverb, African

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

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edward Albee

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Seneca

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.