Motivational Quotes

Failure

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Sophocles

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

Kaufman, Herbert

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carver, George Washington

11.

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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Viscott, David

24.

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

Seneca

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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Lynch, Charles

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

35.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

39.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

41.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake