Motivational Quotes

Failure

Failure is the path of least persistence

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

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

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, African

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Proverb, German

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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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 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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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Confucius

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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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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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

33.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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