Motivational Quotes

Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

- Munro, Dick

Best Quotes about Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Korda, Michael

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

Bill Lyon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Proverb

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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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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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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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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Proverb, Turkish

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Proverb, German