Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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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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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Viscott, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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