Motivational Quotes

Failure

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about 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

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

Miller, Henry

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

George, William Lloyd

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Robbins, Anthony

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

Edward Albee

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Seneca

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Heller, 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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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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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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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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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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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Viscott, David

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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