Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Hoffer, Eric

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Sophocles

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Keats, John

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Heller, Joseph

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu