Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Lawes, Lewis E.

Best Quotes about Failure

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

James, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Tracy, Brian

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