Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Seneca

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Wooden, John

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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.

Albrecht, Karl

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Swinnerton, Frank

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Melville, Herman

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Proverb, Turkish

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