Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Baxter, Anne

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

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

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

Edward Albee

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

13.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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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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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Seneca

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Viscott, David

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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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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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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Korda, Michael

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Porsche, Dr.

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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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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 meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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

Keats, John

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal