Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Reuther, Walter

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Porsche, Dr.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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People don't fail, they give up

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Quentin Crisp

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert 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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

George, William Lloyd

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.