Motivational Quotes

Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Best Quotes about Failure

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Past failures are guideposts to success.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Miller, Henry

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

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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 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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Chase, Ilka

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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.

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.