Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Aoki, Rocky

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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 is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Lynch, Charles

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

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

Bill Lyon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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