Motivational Quotes

Failure

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

- Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Melville, Herman

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

James, William

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

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

Seneca

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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

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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Bill Lyon

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Lynch, Charles

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Edward Albee

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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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 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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese