Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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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 have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eliot, George

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

33.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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

George, William Lloyd

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

42.

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

Edward Albee

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig