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

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

If you've never failed you've never tried.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

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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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 person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bill Lyon

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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James, William

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Edward Albee

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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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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.

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

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