Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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

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

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

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

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Goizueta, Roberto

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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

Korda, Michael

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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.

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom