Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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

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

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

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

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.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Edward Albee

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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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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Wooden, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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

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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Proverb, Chinese

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Givens, Charles J.

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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 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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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

Proverb, German

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick