Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Carver, George Washington

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

10.

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

11.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Korda, Michael

28.

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

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Seneca

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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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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

40.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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.

44.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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People don't fail, they give up

47.

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

48.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Bristol, Claude M.