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

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Seneca

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Melville, Herman

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Keats, John

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, African

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

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

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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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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

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.