Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Chase, Ilka

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.

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heller, Joseph

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wooden, John

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Viscott, David

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom