Motivational Quotes

Failure

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

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

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

Sophocles

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Wooden, John

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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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 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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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 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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Seneca

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.