Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Korda, Michael

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Seneca

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Jones, Lloyd

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

Hill, Napoleon

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Porsche, Dr.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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 an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Thought is born of failure.