Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Best Quotes about Failure

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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.

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.

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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Pitino, Rick

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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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb

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

Aoki, Rocky

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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

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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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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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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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

Proverb, African

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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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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Turn your scars into stars