Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Grayson, David

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Edward Albee

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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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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 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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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James, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry