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

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

Proverb

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

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

Keats, John

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

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

Chase, Ilka

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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

Proverb, African

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

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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.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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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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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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

Sophocles

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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 but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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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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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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

Melville, Herman

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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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

Viscott, David

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

Heller, Joseph

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