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

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

People don't fail, they give up

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Eliot, George

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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