Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Wooden, John

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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.

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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.

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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Melville, Herman

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Grayson, David

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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