Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Reuther, Walter

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

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.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

George, William Lloyd

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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 not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Picabia, Francis

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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.

21.

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

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

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Proverb

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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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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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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 are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Miller, Henry

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

Salak, John Charles

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.