Motivational Quotes

Failure

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

- Riis, Jacob

Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Viscott, David

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Eliot, George

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Quentin Crisp

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Neuharth, Al

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Phillips, Wendell

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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

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

Grayson, David

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

Edward Albee

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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.