Motivational Quotes

Failure

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

- Mckinnon, Dan

Best Quotes about Failure

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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

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

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

10.

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Bartkowski, Steve

12.

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Quentin Crisp

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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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

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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.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Eliot, George

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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

40.

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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.