Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Viscott, David

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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

Baxter, Anne

10.

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bill Lyon

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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.

34.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

South, Bishop Robert

49.

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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.