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

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

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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wooden, John

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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Neuharth, Al

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Reuther, Walter

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Viscott, David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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