Motivational Quotes

Failure

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Sophocles

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

Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

People don't fail, they give up

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.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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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 only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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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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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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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