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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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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

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

Clarke, J. Richard

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Neuharth, Al

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Melville, Herman

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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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