Motivational Quotes

Failure

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Carl Jung

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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.

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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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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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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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