Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hopkins, Tom

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Viscott, David

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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Sophocles

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, African