Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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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

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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People don't fail, they give up

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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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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

George, William Lloyd

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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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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 not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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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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

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande