Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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.

Hobson, Tom

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Viscott, David

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

Korda, Michael

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wooden, John

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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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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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.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

Waitley, Denis

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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.

Hopkins, Tom

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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