Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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

Brown, Les

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

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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

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

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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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.

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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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

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Carver, George Washington

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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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 the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Porsche, Dr.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Randy K. Milholland

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.