Motivational Quotes

Failure

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Brown, Les

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

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Proverb, German

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Tracy, Brian

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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