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

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

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Keats, John

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

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Aoki, Rocky

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

10.

People don't fail, they give up

11.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Wooden, John

13.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

Bill Lyon

16.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

17.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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.

19.

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.

20.

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

22.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

25.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

28.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

31.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

32.

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.

33.

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

Porsche, Dr.

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

38.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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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.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

45.

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

Proverb, African

46.

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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley