Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Korda, Michael

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

James, William

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

Miller, Henry

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Viscott, David

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Picabia, Francis

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Sophocles

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Keats, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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 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

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Melville, Herman

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro