Motivational Quotes

Failure

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

- Lynch, Charles

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

James, William

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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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

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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 man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Sophocles

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

Picabia, Francis

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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 is the path of least persistence

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman