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

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

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

Lynch, Charles

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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

Seneca

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

18.

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

Aoki, Rocky

19.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Wooden, John

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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People don't fail, they give up

35.

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

Proverb

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Schuller, Robert H.