Motivational Quotes

Failure

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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Best Quotes about Failure

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

James, William

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

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

Wooden, John

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

19.

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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Eliot, George

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Baxter, Anne

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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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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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Viscott, David