Motivational Quotes

Failure

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Proverb, African

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb

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

Mckinnon, Dan

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Salak, John Charles

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, German

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Waitley, Denis