Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Edward Albee

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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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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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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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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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William