Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Wooden, John

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

Bill Lyon

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Confucius

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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People don't fail, they give up

33.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Keats, John

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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