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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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

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

Confucius

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

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Proverb

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

Tracy, Brian

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Quentin Crisp

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Pitino, Rick

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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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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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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

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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 but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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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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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

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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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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

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

Loelia, Duchess