Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Quentin Crisp

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Neuharth, Al

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Grayson, David

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Keats, John

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Lynch, Charles

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor