Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

Tracy, Brian

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

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

17.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

18.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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 thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

28.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heller, Joseph

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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

35.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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