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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Chase, Ilka

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Keats, John

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

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

James, William

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Edward Albee

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Ziglar, Zig