Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Seneca

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

Failure is the path of least persistence

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

Melville, Herman

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Bloch, Arthur

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.

Proverb

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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

Aoki, Rocky

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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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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats