Motivational Quotes

Failure

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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.

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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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

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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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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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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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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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lynch, Charles

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham