Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

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Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Melville, Herman

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

James, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Baxter, Anne

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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