Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Seneca

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Miller, Henry

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, 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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Quentin Crisp

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Keats, John