Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Loelia, Duchess

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hopkins, Tom

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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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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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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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Proverb, African

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Proverb, Turkish

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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.