Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Grayson, David

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.

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

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

Seneca

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Chase, Ilka

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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 learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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 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

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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