Motivational Quotes

Failure

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Jones, Lloyd

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, William Lloyd

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Keats, John

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Grayson, David

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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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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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 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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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.

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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.