Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edward Albee

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Givens, Charles J.