Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- George, William Lloyd

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

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

Jones, Lloyd

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Edward Albee

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Reuther, Walter

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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max