Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Baxter, Anne

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Carl Jung

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

13.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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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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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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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

35.

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Viscott, David

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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