Motivational Quotes

Failure

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

George, William Lloyd

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Melville, Herman

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

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Proverb, African

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

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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