Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not an option.

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Ziglar, Zig

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Wooden, John

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

Seneca

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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

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Mckinnon, Dan