Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jones, Lloyd

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Bloch, Arthur

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Heller, Joseph

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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 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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Seneca

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart