Motivational Quotes

Failure

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Failure

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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)

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

Proverb

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Carl Jung

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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.

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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Seneca

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Confucius

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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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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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Bill Lyon

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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