Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Failure

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Sophocles

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wooden, John

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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Keats, John

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Proverb, German

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, 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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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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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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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.

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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