Motivational Quotes

Failure

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

- Merton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Porsche, Dr.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Eliot, George

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Grayson, David

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Carver, George Washington

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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

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

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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 should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Bill Lyon

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

Seneca

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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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

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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 can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hill, Napoleon