Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Alacia Bessette

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

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

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

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

Heller, Joseph

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

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

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

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

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Bristol, Claude M.

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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

Proverb

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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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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Chase, Ilka

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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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Eliot, George

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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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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Porsche, Dr.

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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.