Motivational Quotes

Failure

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

10.

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

11.

If you've never failed you've never tried.

12.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Viscott, David

17.

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

Hopkins, Tom

18.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

20.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

21.

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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

23.

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

Confucius

25.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

26.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

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

Grayson, David

30.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

41.

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

Proverb, Turkish

42.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

43.

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

45.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Reuther, Walter

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Wooden, John

50.

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