Motivational Quotes

Failure

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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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People don't fail, they give up

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

Viscott, David

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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

Baxter, Anne

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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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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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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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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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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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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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.