Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob