Motivational Quotes

Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Picabia, Francis

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

James, William

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Grayson, David

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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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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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Melville, Herman

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham