Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

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Best Quotes about Failure

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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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

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wooden, John

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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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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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Viscott, David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert