Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure too is a form of death...

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

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

Melville, Herman

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

George, William Lloyd

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Bloch, Arthur

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.