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

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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

People don't fail, they give up

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

Hill, Napoleon

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

10.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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

Loelia, Duchess

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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 a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Aoki, Rocky

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sophocles

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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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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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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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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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe