Inspirations

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.

- Karl Albrecht

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

- James Allen

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

- Rocky Aoki

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

- Sir James M Barrie

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

- Steve Bartkowski

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

- Anne Baxter

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

- Anne Baxter

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

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

- Sir Max Beerbohm

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Amar Gopal Bose

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Christian Nevell Bovee

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

- Claude M Bristol

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

- Les Brown

Failure is an event, never a person.

- William D Brown

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

- Walter Brunell

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

- Frank Burford

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

- George Washington Carver

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

- Ilka Chase

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

- J Richard Clarke

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.

- Georges Clemenceau

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

- Edwin Louis Cole

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

- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there, that's a disgrace.

- E V Cooke

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

- Francis Crawford

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

- Sir Humphrey Davy

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

- Walt Disney

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

- Edward Dowden

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

- Thomas A Edison

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

- Thomas A Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A Edison

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

- George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

- George Eliot

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

- George Eliot

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

- William Feather

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.

- Ella Fitzgerald

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

- Ferdinand Foch

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

- John W Gardner

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

- William Lloyd George

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

- Charles J Givens

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

- William E Gladstone

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

- Roberto Goizueta

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

- David Grayson

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

- Thomas C Haliburton

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.

- S I Hayakawa

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

- George Herbert

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

- Napoleon Hill

Edison failed 10000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Robert S Hillyer

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.

- Tom Hobson

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

- Eric Hoffer

Success is 99 percent failure.

- Soichiro Honda

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.

- Tom Hopkins

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

- Tom Hopkins

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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.

- Elbert Hubbard

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

- Thomas H Huxley

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

- William James

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

- Lloyd Jones

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Herbert Kaufman

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.

- John Keats

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

- John Keats

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

- Robert F Kennedy

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Charles F Kettering

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.

- Charles F Kettering

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.

- Charles F Kettering

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.

- Charles F Kettering

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

- Michael Korda

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

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

- Abraham Lincoln

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

- Cassius Longinus

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

- Erwin W Lutzer

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

- Charles Lynch

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

- Norman Macewan

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

- Katherine Mansfield

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

- Orison Swett Marden

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

- Orison Swett Marden

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

- Dan Mckinnon

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

- Herman Melville

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

- Thomas Merton

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

- Joaquin Miller

Failure is not an option.

- Apollo 13 Movie

Losing is a part of winning.

- Dick Munro

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

- Al Neuharth

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

- Richard M Nixon

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

- George S Patton

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- H Ross Perot

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.

- Wilferd A Peterson

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

- Wendell Phillips

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

- Rick Pitino

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

- Plutarch

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

- Doctor Porsche

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

- Proverb

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

- African Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

- German Proverb

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

- Turkish Proverb

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

- Walter Reuther

Failure is not fatal, victory is not success.

- Tony Richardson

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

- Jacob Riis

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.

- Anthony Robbins

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.

- Anthony Robbins

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Anthony Robbins

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

- Jim Rohn

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

- Jim Rohn

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

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

- Franklin D Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

- Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Men do not fail, they give up trying.

- Elihu Root

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

Failures are divided into two classes, those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

- John Charles Salak

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

- Robert H Schuller

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

- Robert H Schuller

Turn your scars into stars

- Robert H Schuller

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

- Seneca

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

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

- Sri Swami Sivananda

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

- Sri Swami Sivananda

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.

- Burrhus Frederic Skinner

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.

- Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success, they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

- Samuel Smiles

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

- Bishop Robert South

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.

- Ben Stein

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.

- Richard Martin Stern

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.

- J August Strindberg

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.

- Joseph Sugarman

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

- Frank Swinnerton

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

- Source Unknown

People don't fail, they give up

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph, a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

- Source Unknown

Past failures are guideposts to success.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

- Source Unknown

Failure is not the worst thing in the world, the very worst is not to try.

- Source Unknown

Failure is the path of least persistence

- Source Unknown

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this. Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

- Source Unknown

If you've never failed you've never tried.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

- Source Unknown

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

- Marquis De Vauvenargues

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

- David Viscott

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

- David Viscott

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

- Denis Waitley

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

- Harold Blake Walker

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.

- Doctor C E Welch

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

- Richard Whately

Every failure is a step to success.

- William Whewell

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.

- A L Williams

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- John Wooden

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

- Paramahansa Yogananda

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

- Zig Ziglar

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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 6: Developing Strategies for Coping

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.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

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

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

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

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

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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

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.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

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

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

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

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

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

Failure is an event, never a person.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

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

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

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

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.

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there, that's a disgrace.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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

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

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Edison failed 10000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

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

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

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

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.

Success is 99 percent failure.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

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

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.