Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

James, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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