Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca

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

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wooden, John

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People don't fail, they give up

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Bill Lyon

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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

Bloch, Arthur

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Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

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

Heller, Joseph

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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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.

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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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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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