Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James, William

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Porsche, Dr.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Proverb

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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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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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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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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 loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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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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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Korda, Michael