Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Best Quotes about Failure

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Seneca

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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

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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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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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