Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Chase, Ilka

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Seneca

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Grayson, David

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb, Turkish

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.