Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

People don't fail, they give up

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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.

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

Proverb, African

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Melville, Herman

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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

Grayson, David

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

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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 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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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

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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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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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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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

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Failure is the path of least persistence