Motivational Quotes

Failure

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.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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 moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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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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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Grayson, David

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bill Lyon

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb, African