Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Phillips, Wendell

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Wooden, John

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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 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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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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

30.

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

Baxter, Anne

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

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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.

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Grayson, David

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Quentin Crisp

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Eliot, George

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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