Motivational Quotes

Failure

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Pitino, Rick

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

Grayson, David

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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.

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.

Viscott, David

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

Reuther, Walter

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Salak, John Charles

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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.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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

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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

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Turn your scars into stars