Motivational Quotes

Failure

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Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Eliot, George

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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, 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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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.