Motivational Quotes

Failure

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

- Williams, A.L.

Best Quotes about Failure

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Edward Albee

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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.

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

Proverb, African

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Picabia, Francis

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert