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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Eliot, George

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Proverb

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bill Lyon

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter