Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Jones, Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Carver, George Washington