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

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Korda, Michael

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Proverb, African

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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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Carl Jung

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Proverb

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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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

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.