Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Pitino, Rick

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

Failure is the path of least persistence

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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.