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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Baxter, Anne

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

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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

Wooden, John

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

Proverb

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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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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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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