Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

South, Bishop Robert

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Proverb, African

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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

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Miller, Henry

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin