Motivational Quotes

Failure

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Failure

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, African

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Heller, Joseph

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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 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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Neuharth, Al

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

31.

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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Edward Albee

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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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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 only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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 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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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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey