Motivational Quotes

Failure

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

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Best Quotes about Failure

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

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Baxter, Anne

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.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Baldwin, James

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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

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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Lynch, Charles

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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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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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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

Proverb, African

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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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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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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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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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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aoki, Rocky

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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Mckinnon, Dan

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

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

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Swinnerton, Frank

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Heller, Joseph

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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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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 are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.