Motivational Quotes

Failure

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Robbins, Anthony

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Proverb, African

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Keats, John

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Edward Albee

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Goizueta, Roberto