Motivational Quotes

Failure

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Best Quotes about Failure

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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 is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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 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 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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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

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

Proverb, German

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