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

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.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Hill, Napoleon

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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

Bloch, Arthur

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Edward Albee

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

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, Turkish

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Tracy, Brian

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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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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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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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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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon