Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Grayson, David

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Keats, John

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry