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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Miller, Henry

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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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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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 nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Carver, George Washington

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

Robbins, Anthony