Motivational Quotes

Failure

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Failure

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Eliot, George

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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

Eliot, George

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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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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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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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hopkins, Tom

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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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 only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Heller, Joseph

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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.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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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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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese