Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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.

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

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Lynch, Charles

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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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

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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've never failed you've never tried.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges