Motivational Quotes

Failure

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Carl Jung

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Lynch, Charles

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Sophocles

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jones, Lloyd

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Edison, Thomas A.