Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Eliot, George

Failure is the path of least persistence

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bill Lyon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Grayson, David

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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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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Carl Jung

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Proverb, African

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Hoffer, Eric