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

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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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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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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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

James, William

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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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

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

Grayson, David