Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is an event, never a person.

- Brown, William D.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Aoki, Rocky

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wooden, John

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb

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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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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George