Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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.

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.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Seneca

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Grayson, David

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

Schuller, Robert H.