Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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.

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 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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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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 one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Wooden, John

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Robbins, Anthony

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Heller, Joseph

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failure is an event, never a person.