Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Failure

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

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.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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

Bose, Amar Gopal

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Viscott, David

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

South, Bishop Robert

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

31.

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

Confucius

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 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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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Kaufman, Herbert

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

Chase, Ilka

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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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.