Motivational Quotes

Failure

People don't fail, they give up

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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)

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

James, William

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Seneca

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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.