Motivational Quotes

Failure

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

People don't fail, they give up

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Bill Lyon

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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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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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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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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, German

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Lynch, Charles

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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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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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George