Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Les

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

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Keats, John

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

Wooden, John

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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 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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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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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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

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

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

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

Jones, Lloyd

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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 much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.