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

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Edward Albee

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

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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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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Sophocles

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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James, William

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Wooden, John

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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