Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Grayson, David

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 -- 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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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

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Viscott, David

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Neuharth, Al

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People don't fail, they give up

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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 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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.