Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Melville, Herman

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

James, William

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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

Porsche, Dr.

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

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

Edward Albee

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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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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Perot, H. Ross

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Richardson, Tony

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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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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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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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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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