Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Failure

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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)

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Bill Lyon

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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