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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Heller, Joseph

If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Proverb

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

George, William Lloyd

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Keats, John

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry