Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

People don't fail, they give up

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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

Bloch, Arthur

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

Melville, Herman

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

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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Failure is not an option.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Heller, Joseph

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

27.

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

Edward Albee

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

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

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

Bartkowski, Steve

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wooden, John

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Turn your scars into stars

Schuller, Robert H.

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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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 too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese