Motivational Quotes

Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Failure

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

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Loelia, Duchess

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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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

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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 surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Grayson, David

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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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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Marcus, Greil

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

Pitino, Rick

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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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 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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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