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

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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.

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Wooden, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Edward Albee

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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.