Motivational Quotes

Failure

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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Best Quotes about Failure

Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bloch, Arthur

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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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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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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failure too is a form of death...

Greene, Graham

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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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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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Keats, John

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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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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Brunell, Walter

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Lynch, Charles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bill Lyon

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb, German

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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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