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

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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.

2.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

10.

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

Bill Lyon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

14.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

16.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

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.

19.

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

Baxter, Anne

20.

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

21.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

22.

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

23.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

24.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

People don't fail, they give up

26.

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

27.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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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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

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

33.

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

34.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

36.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

37.

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