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

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

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

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Melville, Herman

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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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Miller, Henry

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

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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

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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 is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, Turkish