Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Keats, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Viscott, David

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Bill Lyon

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Sophocles

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley