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

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

James, William

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Wooden, John

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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

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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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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.