Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Picabia, Francis

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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

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

Confucius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wooden, John

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bill Lyon

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Jones, Lloyd

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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 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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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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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