Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, African

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Seneca

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

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.