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

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Picabia, Francis

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Viscott, David

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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Rohn, Jim

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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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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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Sophocles

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

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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