Motivational Quotes

Failure

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Loelia, Duchess

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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

Heller, Joseph

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, African

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Phillips, Wendell

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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

Melville, Herman

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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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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Baxter, Anne

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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

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

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Edward Albee

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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