Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Porsche, Dr.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Eliot, George

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

Failure is the path of least persistence

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.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Confucius

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Heller, Joseph

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bill Lyon

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Edward Albee

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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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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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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Proverb, African

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

40.

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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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Proverb, Turkish

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Seneca

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.