Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Jones, Lloyd

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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)

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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.

Gardner, John W.

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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.

Merton, Thomas

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Pitino, Rick

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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

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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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.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Rohn, Jim