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

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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.

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

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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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