Motivational Quotes

Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Baxter, Anne

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

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Reuther, Walter

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Keats, John

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, 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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Proverb

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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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People don't fail, they give up

31.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Confucius

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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