Motivational Quotes

Failure

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

- Cole, Edwin Louis

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Winfrey, Oprah

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of 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

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

George, William Lloyd

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Edward Albee

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

Viscott, David

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Wooden, John

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Bill Lyon

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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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