Motivational Quotes

Failure

Turn your scars into stars

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Rohn, Jim

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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 an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Melville, Herman

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, African

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese