Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Korda, Michael

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Proverb, African

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.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Carl Jung

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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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.

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.