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

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

Carver, George Washington

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Porsche, Dr.

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Wooden, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

Eliot, George

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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