Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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 you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

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

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Bill Lyon

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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