Motivational Quotes

Failure

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Randy K. Milholland

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Quentin Crisp

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Proverb

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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People don't fail, they give up

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis