Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grayson, David

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Keats, John

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Carl Jung

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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

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

Melville, Herman

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

George, William Lloyd