Motivational Quotes

Failure

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Best Quotes about Failure

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

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

Loelia, Duchess

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Viscott, David

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

Proverb

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Eliot, George

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Confucius

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Melville, Herman

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick