Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Seneca

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)

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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.

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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People don't fail, they give up

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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 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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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Salak, John Charles

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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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.