Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

George, William Lloyd

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Eliot, George

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

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

People don't fail, they give up

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

Miller, Henry

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Keats, John

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Givens, Charles J.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Viscott, David

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

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

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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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.