Motivational Quotes

Failure

Turn your scars into stars

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Eliot, George

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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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 only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Bill Lyon

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

Edward Albee

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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.

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

Quentin Crisp

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Proverb, Chinese