Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Phillips, Wendell

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

10.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

14.

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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

24.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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 does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Baxter, Anne

40.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Goizueta, Roberto

44.

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

Proverb, African

45.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.