Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Swinnerton, Frank

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Grayson, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Heller, Joseph

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

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

Bill Lyon

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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

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Jones, Lloyd

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.