Motivational Quotes

Failure

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, German

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

James, William

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chase, Ilka

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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 not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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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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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Miller, Henry

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry