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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Schuller, Robert H.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Eliot, George

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

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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

Mckinnon, Dan

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb

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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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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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.

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

Heller, Joseph

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

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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

Wooden, John

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Melville, Herman

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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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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Neuharth, Al

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