Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Salak, John Charles

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Proverb

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Neuharth, Al

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Keats, John

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

15.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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 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

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

Edward Albee

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

22.

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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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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

40.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Turkish

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law