Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Best Quotes about Failure

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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.

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

Chase, Ilka

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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 is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.