Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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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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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.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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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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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Porsche, Dr.

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Waitley, Denis

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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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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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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