Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Sophocles

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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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.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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)

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

Eliot, George

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis