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

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.

People don't fail, they give up

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

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Chase, Ilka

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

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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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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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Neuharth, Al

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.