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

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Eliot, George

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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Viscott, David

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank