Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Failure

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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People don't fail, they give up

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

George, William Lloyd

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Porsche, Dr.

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