Motivational Quotes

Failure

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

- Baxter, Anne

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Phillips, Wendell

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Edward Albee

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

Seneca

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

James, William

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

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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'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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Baxter, Anne

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Viscott, David

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb