Motivational Quotes

Failure

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Failure

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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)

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Melville, Herman

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Chase, Ilka

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.