Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

- Brown, William D.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Seneca

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Heller, Joseph

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Quentin Crisp

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Eliot, George