Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bloch, Arthur

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

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

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

10.

People don't fail, they give up

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Viscott, David

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Waitley, Denis

24.

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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

28.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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