Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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

Hopkins, Tom

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Randy K. Milholland

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Seneca

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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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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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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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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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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Hillyer, Robert S.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Proverb

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.