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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

10.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

11.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Proverb, German

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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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.

28.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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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 not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

31.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wooden, John

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Pitino, Rick

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.