Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

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

Carl Jung

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Phillips, Wendell

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.