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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Proverb

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

George, William Lloyd

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Salak, John Charles

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon