Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Jones, Lloyd

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.