Motivational Quotes

Failure

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Hoffer, Eric

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Proverb, African

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

Brown, Les

You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Grayson, David

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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hopkins, Tom

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.