Motivational Quotes

Failure

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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Best Quotes about Failure

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Melville, Herman

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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)

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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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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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 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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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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