Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Proverb, African

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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 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.

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Edward Albee

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Seneca

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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

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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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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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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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