Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Reuther, Walter

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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.

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

Heller, Joseph

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Viscott, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Wooden, John

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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.

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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