Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lynch, Charles

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is the proper utilization 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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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 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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Seneca

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick