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

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.

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

Edward Albee

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.

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

Porsche, Dr.

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Grayson, David

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Brown, Les

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

Seneca