Motivational Quotes

Failure

Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Best Quotes about Failure

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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

Edward Albee

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

Keats, John

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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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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Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Root, Elihu

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

George, William Lloyd

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

Proverb, African

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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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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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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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

Heller, Joseph

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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Gillies, Jerry

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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

Proverb

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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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