Motivational Quotes

Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kaufman, Herbert

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Viscott, David

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Edward Albee

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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.

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

Keats, John

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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 the path of least persistence

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

Grayson, David

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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