Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Jones, Lloyd

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

People don't fail, they give up

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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.

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

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Grayson, David

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Proverb, African

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

Seneca

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Keats, John

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Albrecht, Karl

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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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.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis