Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Seneca

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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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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Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

South, Bishop Robert

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Chase, Ilka

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Neuharth, Al

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.