Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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

George, William Lloyd

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

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

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Brown, Les

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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