Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

James, William

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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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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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 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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward