Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Tracy, Brian

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Jones, Lloyd

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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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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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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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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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

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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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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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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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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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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

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

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Keats, John

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.