Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Failure

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Proverb

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Proverb, African

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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Proverb, German

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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 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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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart