Motivational Quotes

Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Best Quotes about Failure

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Picabia, Francis

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, African

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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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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Proverb

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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