Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Grayson, David

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

Miller, Henry

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

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

Aoki, Rocky

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Sophocles

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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

Proverb, African

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

George, William Lloyd

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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

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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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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Proverb

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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

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