Motivational Quotes

Failure

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

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

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Wooden, John

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Quentin Crisp

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

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

Lynch, Charles

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

South, Bishop Robert