Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Neuharth, Al

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Keats, John

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

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

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Confucius

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Proverb

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Wooden, John

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bill Lyon

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Viscott, David

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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.