Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Failure

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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.

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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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.

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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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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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