Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Eliot, George

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Confucius

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

Sophocles

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, African

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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

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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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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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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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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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter