Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Edward Albee

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Rohn, Jim

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

18.

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

Proverb, Turkish

19.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Grayson, David

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

29.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Bill Lyon

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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aoki, Rocky

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George