Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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)

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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People don't fail, they give up

20.

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

21.

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

Keats, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

31.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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've never failed you've never tried.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Proverb

41.

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

Neuharth, Al

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

44.

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

45.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Jones, Lloyd

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis