Motivational Quotes

Failure

Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

Failure is the path of least persistence

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Miller, Henry

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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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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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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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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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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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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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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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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

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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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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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

Sophocles

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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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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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People don't fail, they give up

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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu