Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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

Proverb, Turkish

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Chase, Ilka

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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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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

Viscott, David

33.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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