Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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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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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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 not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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

Proverb, African

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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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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.