Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

Viscott, David

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

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Sugarman, Joseph

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, African

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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.

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal