Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

- Bartkowski, Steve

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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

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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

12.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

17.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

19.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Quentin Crisp

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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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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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

Bill Lyon

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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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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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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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

40.

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.

41.

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

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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People don't fail, they give up

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