Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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.

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

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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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

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Edward Albee

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

43.

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

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

48.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey