Motivational Quotes

Failure

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

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.

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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.

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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 not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sophocles

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Seneca

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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 the path of least persistence

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ziglar, Zig