Motivational Quotes

Failure

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Keats, John

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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.

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

Carver, George Washington

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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

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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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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.