Motivational Quotes

Failure

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Grayson, David

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

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

Viscott, David

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

Eliot, George

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Wooden, John

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

Sophocles

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Proverb, German

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.