Motivational Quotes

Failure

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Wooden, John

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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 is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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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.

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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

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

Heller, Joseph

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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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.