Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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

Grayson, David

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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

Sophocles

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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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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Melville, Herman

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb

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

Wooden, John

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.