Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

Best Quotes about Failure

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

Mckinnon, Dan

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Sophocles

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

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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb

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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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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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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lynch, Charles

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, African

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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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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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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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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 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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Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

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

Grayson, David